Learn why a protein in oyster blood could boost some antibiotics’ efficacies against several resistant strains.
Oysters have long been considered an aphrodisiac. Now, the mollusk might be tapped to fight infectious diseases.
“Most organisms have natural defense mechanisms to protect themselves against infection,” Kirsten Benkendorff, a researcher at Southern Cross University, Australia, and an author of the study, said in aThe researchers extracted the oyster blood, then added it to both solutions and biofilms that contained harmful bacteria.
“The hemolymph contains a mixture of proteins with known antimicrobial properties,” Benkendorff said. “These may act to directly kill the bacteria, as well as preventing them from attaching to the cell surface.”
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